Reversible sign



' Dec. 21 1926.

C.S.YOUNG REVERSIBLE SIGN Filed Dec. 29 1925 Patented Dec. 21, 1926.

UNITED STATES GOLLIE S. YOUNG, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

REVERSIBLE SIGN.

Application filed December 29, 1925.

My invention relates more particularly to adjustable or reversible signs and their complemental carriers and, while not restricted to such use, is of special advantage in connection with the tank cars to indicate whether the lading is of safe or of menacing character. The usual practice is to employ a cardboard sign or placard containing a warning indicative of the presence of in-. flammable liquid or vapor. The placard generally is tacked or pasted to place and ordinarily is unfit for further use after removal. The absence of the placard indicates that the car is unloaded or that its lading is not of inflammable or other menacing character. Manifestly the reversal of the placard might be availed of to indicate the same, but the ordinary placard does not readily lend itself to reversal.

Therefore, the objects of my invention are to provide means of a more or less permanent character for displaying certain indicia; to provide asimple and inexpensive sign and sign carrier; and to provide a device of the nature indicated wherein the sign may readily be reversed to display safety or danger signals or notices or be bodily retired from view.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete assembly.

Fig. 2 is a rear view.

Fig. 3 is an edge view; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the cradle in detached relation.

According to my invention I provide a main support or carrier, an appropriate sign, and a pivotal element or cradle wherein the sign is capable, notwithstanding its captive relation, of ready reversal, or of being retired to a point of concealment.

The main support or carrier 5 is or may be the usual mounting board of general diamond shape, that is to say a rectangular member cornerwise supported by a securing element 6. In line with. my inventive thought a summital bracket 7 provides a sleeve 8 extending fore and aft of the carrier and constituting one element of a hinge connection for the cradle carrying the sign plate. One embodiment of the cradle is shown in Fig. 4:. The element of which it is embodied is shaped to provide parallel reaches or runners 9 designed to overhang Serial No. 78,163.

the carrier and whereof the respective tor-- minals are directed downwardly and then reversed so as to establish, at the front, an open switch 10, and, at the rear, 2. closed switch 11. One end 12 of the element is disposed intermediate the parallel reaches or runners 9 and extends through the sleeve 8 so as to provide a hinge or rocking con nection for the cradle; the other end 18, after closing the rear switch or loop, being disposed as at 14.

The sign plate 15 may be constructed of sheet metal and is equipped on one or both sides with appropriate symbols or notices.

A corner eye 16 is the medium of its captive relation with the cradle.

It will be evident from l and that the open switch or loop 10 aiiords ready means for reversing the sign to display one or the other side thereof, and that, the runners 9 enable the sl m plate, when the occasion presents itself, to be retired out view to the rear switch 11. V

The double lugs or keepers l7 serve to mar 'inall engage the si n plate and are b Q r, b 1.

vent casual movement thereof.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. A device of the nature indicated, embodying a main support or carrier, a sign element, and suspension means ranging fore and aft of the carrier and having terminal switches whereof one enables the sign element to be reversed and whereof the other enables it to be retired out of view.

2. A device of the nature indicated, embodying a cornerwise supported carrier of general diamond shape, a correspondingly shaped sign plate, and a plate suspension. device mounted for pivotal or rocking movement on the apex of the carrier and including runners having front and rear terminal loops, the front loop constituting an open switch for reversing the sign plate without detaching it, the runners affording means for retiring the sign plate out of view.

3. A device of the nature indicated, embodying a cornerwise supported rectangular carrier, a cradle on the apex of the carrier, a sign plate formed to fit the carrier and adjustably mounted in the cradle whereby it is capable of reversal or alternatively of being retired out of view, and means on the carrier to preventcasual movement of the sign plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

COLLIE S. YOUNG.

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